Posted on 05/09/2022 9:03:24 PM PDT by proxy_user
ATLANTA — The rap star Young Thug, one of the most influential artists to emerge from Atlanta’s famously fertile hip-hop scene, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of gang involvement and conspiracy to violate of the Georgia criminal racketeering law. The rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, was charged in a sweeping grand jury indictment that identified him and 27 other people as members of the same criminal street gang and charged some of them with violent crimes including murder and attempted armed robbery.
Mr. Williams has reshaped the rap world throughout his decade-plus career and inspired a host of emulators as he earned three No. 1 albums on the Billboard chart and collaborated with stars across the rap world and beyond. His arrest comes as District Attorney Fani Willis of Fulton County — a Democrat best known for investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies committed election fraud in Georgia — has vowed to crack down on street gangs in Atlanta, a city reeling from violent crime.
The arrest of Mr. Williams at his house in the well-heeled Buckhead neighborhood was confirmed on Monday night by Jeff DiSantis, a spokesman for Ms. Willis’s office, who said that several other people named in the indictment were also arrested.
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Eponymous?
I really wish they had called him Mr. Thug & not Mr. Williams.
No way he wasn’t laughing the entire time.
Oh gosh I’m so shocked
He was about to change his name to Young Nuclear Physicist, too.
Yes; looks like his ‘name’ reflected his fate.
So it’s not just a rap name, huh? It’s the lifestyle.
I’m shocked! Shocked, I say!
Next you’ll tell me the sun always rises in the East!
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